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| Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake | | 2007-09-29 14:09:00 | | Kasi and Stephen stopped by to have a birthday dinner for Kasi. I asked Kasi what she'd like to eat and her answer: Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake! 'nuff said. I've made this particular cake before (maybe once or twice) and tastes wonderful. However, I don't often go for this recipe because it needs to be modified to cook correctly, and it has some extra steps that don't add enough value for my taste.The recipe comes from "Star Pooley" as posted on AllRecipes and, as I mentioned, some changes are necessary, just like the last cheesecake recipe I found on AllRecipes -- the one for apple and maple.First of all, Star recommends blind baking the crust. I'm not a fan. But just to be near the recipe I do it for half the time, that is MORE than enough and really superfluous.Second, Star's recipe scale for cookie dough creates at least twice as much as necessary for this cake. And because it's not actually cookie dough (there are no eggs in it), you can't bake off the rest. Star suggests dropping the cookie dough evenly over the entire top of the cake. Maybe if I did that it would be the right amount, but I doubt it. I usually drop in about nine balls of two tablespoons each. The first eight are symmetrically positioned around the outside (about half an inch from the edge). And the ninth is in the center. This puts 1.125 cups of cookie dough into the cake!Finally, Star's cooking recommendations go against my personal beliefs. Star suggests cooking for 40 minutes at 350 deg F then pouring the icing over the hot cake. Oy! My oven, which is the best we could buy (pro-sumer Bluestar) cooks hotter and more evenly than any other I've used. And therefore I only cook cheesecakes for 50 minutes at 350 deg F. In any other, I always do 55 or 60 minutes. Then, and this is critical for ALL CHEESCAKES, do not move the cake. Do the jiggle test (check to make sure it has set around the edges and jiggles in the center), turn off the oven, and leave the oven door open about two inches for an hour. Then you can remove the cake, no sooner.I'm also against icing a warm cake, but in this case I went half way. I let it cool on the counter another hour, then I iced it and let it cool again for another hour before the fridge. This time I came up with a great way of cooling it in the fridge. Instead of covering with saran wrap, which is very close to the cake surface and accumulates a lot of condensation, I used a large cake cover (from a cake carrier). After two hours I wiped down the inside and covered it again. The next day, I replaced it with saran. No water on my cake!Everyone loves this cake, and it was worth fighting with the recipe to make it. Try it out yourself and let me know how it goes...More pictures on Flickr. | | By: FoodMayhem | | |
| | Adapting A Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe | | 2006-09-17 07:57:00 | | Everyone has a favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe, whether it's the classic Toll House one we've all tried at least once, a cookbook recipe, an Internet find or something passed down from grandma.Eventually, however, we get bored making the same recipe all the time. Sure, the cookies are great, but the chocolate chip cookie, like the sugar cookie, is a blank slate ripe for creativity...Read this article and get hundreds of free recipes at AnnsGoodies | | By: AnnsGoodies | | |
| | What Can You Add To A Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe? | | 2006-09-16 11:59:00 | | Remember when you were a kid, and every chocolate chip cookie recipe turned out pretty much the same cookie? Sure, some were crunchy and some were chewy, but they all basically consisted of a sweet dough encasing half-melted chocolate chips.Thanks to the foodie revolution, those days are fast disappearing. Walk down your grocery store's bakery aisle now, and you'll find not just your old-fashioned semi-sweet chips, but a dizzying array of other flavors in chip form. There are peanut butter chips, which taste great right out of the...Read this article and more at AnnsGoodies | | By: AnnsGoodies | | |
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